Archive for December, 2007



Joan and the Fez

ethylene:
firas, get a smoking jacket and a fez
Firas:
a fez?
ethylene:
it’s hard to pull off a fez
but a good smoking jacket
Firas:
eeek
i wanna look like joan jett, not like attaturk
ethylene:
i’ve seen her in a fez
Firas:
you just made me laugh out loud
they’ll think i’m crazy
ethylene:
joan jett would wear something much shorter and tighter
show off her barrel chest
a narrow barrel
Firas:
i’m [...]

‘There was no malady’

Emily Dickinson
They say that “time assuages,”—
   Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
   As sinews do, with age.
Time is a test of trouble,
   But not a remedy.
If such it prove, it prove too
   There was no malady.

Previously:

‘life is a loaded gun’
‘The last shall be the lightest load’
The Reticent Volcano
‘Melts to A Shriek—Wrecked, Solitary, Here…’
‘Inebriate of Air Am I, Debauchee [...]

‘Dear Joan Jett, I think your awesome’

Clinton Writes Fan Letter To Joan Jett:

“Dear Joan Jett, I think your awesome. You are a awesome rock star. You are my favorite rock star,” the fan letter read in part. “I have all your albums.”
According to White House press secretary Joe Lockhart, Clinton was “in high spirits” following the mailing of the letter, retiring [...]